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How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke, Joelle Moore, Fatemeh Aminpour, Katya Eagles   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethics and the decision-making inertia of the public agent in discretionary spaces

Revista Eletrônica de Ciência Administrativa
This essay addresses the ethical dimension of the phenomenon of decision-making inertia in public administration, characterized by the agent's option to give up the power to deliberate in the spaces of discretion for fear of possible liability, even if ...
Sandro Trescastro Bergue
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino, Ilan Wiesel, Ang Li, Rebecca Bentley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Support Allocation: Mental Health and Patterns of Homelessness Support Utilisation

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Homelessness support agencies face substantial puzzles in allocating scarce resources: who gets access and who stays on the waitlist? This paper examines the influence of mental illness on the patterns of consuming non‐clinical homelessness support by persons experiencing homelessness and at risk.
Godwin Kavaarpuo, Kathryn Daley
wiley   +1 more source

Shadow Infrastructures of Labour: A Case Study of Generative AI Use in Victorian Child Protection Practice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT are rapidly entering workplaces, yet their use in frontline human services remains largely undocumented and weakly regulated. Drawing on an investigation into a child protection worker's informal use of ChatGPT, this article provides insight into how GenAI is already shaping ...
Joel Robert McGregor, Linus Tan, Caleb Lloyd, Abigail Sheed   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Temperature‐Controlled Radiofrequency for Severe Nasal Airway Obstruction: A Non‐Inferiority Comparison With Surgical Intervention

International Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Temperature‐controlled radiofrequency (TCRF), septoplasty (ST) with turbinate reduction, and functional rhinoplasty (FR) are treatment options for nasal airway obstruction (NAO) and nasal valve dysfunction (NVD), but no direct comparison of these procedures has been performed. Methods This prospective, open‐label, non‐inferiority (
Greg Davis, Zeeshan Aziz, Jose Barrera, William Blythe, Chris Davis, Steven Davis, Thomas Higgins, Charles Lano, Gregory Levitin, Frederick Lopatin, Samuel Oyer, Stacey Silvers, Ariel Waitzman, Randall Ow   +13 more
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Discretionary Lane-Change Decision and Control via Parameterized Soft Actor–Critic for Hybrid Action Space

Machines
This study focuses on a crucial task in the field of autonomous driving, autonomous lane change. Autonomous lane change plays a pivotal role in improving traffic flow, alleviating driver burden, and reducing the risk of traffic accidents. However, due to
Yuan Lin, Xiao Liu, Zishun Zheng
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Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Block Fibrinolysis in Ischemic Stroke

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objectives Intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) failure in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is frequent, but its causes remain elusive. We investigated whether biologically relevant intrathrombus concentrations of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) were achieved in failed IVT and whether neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) contributed to this therapeutic ...
Mialitiana Solo Nomenjanahary, Jean‐Philippe Desilles, Fatima Zemali, Astride Perrot, Lucas Di Meglio, Sara Zalghout, Jéromine Fasille, Jérémy Neel, Stéphane Loyau, Julien Labreuche, Marie‐Charlotte Bourrienne, Dorothée Faille, François Delvoye, Véronique Ollivier, Sébastien Dupont, Jasmina Rogozarski, Nahida Brikci‐Nigassa, Robert L. Medcalf, Nadine Ajzenberg, Mikael Mazighi, Benoît Ho‐Tin‐Noé, the compoCLOT Study Group   +21 more
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Predictable patterns of unpredictability: a literature review of discretion in migration control

Political Research Exchange
Migration control policies are marked by contradictory policy goals set in a complex web of intersecting international, national, and local regulations. This grants significant discretion to frontline workers. Despite the extensive research undertaken on
Lisa Marie Borrelli, Livia Johannesson, Annika Lindberg   +2 more
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Fascicle measurement methods do result in lengths that are significantly different

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
A recent comparison of the most prevalent methods for measuring fascicles, in situ measurement versus chemical digestion, concluded that the measurements are indistinguishable based on data from different conspecific individuals. However, our study of contralateral muscles of the same individuals shows that the methods clearly result in statistically ...
Katherine M. Clark, Reece A. Brown, Maggie Funderburk, Elise S. Bush, Anthony Herrel, Adam Hartstone‐Rose   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source